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  1. Same here. Plus right now I am having to take Benadryl at night and that makes it even harder to wake up in the morning.
  2. I have a friend who tried it and said it was good and surprisingly filling. Her teen daughter also liked it.
  3. I don't think rebcoola has nefarious intent here, but this is something that's often used as a security question on websites, so just a caution to be careful about what you share on this public board.
  4. I once had a phlebotomist tell me "we're not allowed to try the hand." When I asked what would happen if they couldn't get what they needed, she just kind of shrugged. That was odd since I'd had a draw done in my hand at the previous visit, but this place is notorious for changing policies at the drop of a hat, so... 🤷‍♀️
  5. @itsheresomewhere I'm so very sorry this happened. You are not being petty.
  6. The poison. The poison for plants. The poison chosen specially to kill plants. The plants' poison. That poison.
  7. I have an online friend (from a different board) who lives in East Palestine. She and her kids live on the west side of the town and she says they are safe. She pointed out a local organization that is helping the community and said donations to that organization would be helpful. I don't know anything about the organization beyond that my friend suggested it, but if it is not against board rules I could share the link if people are interested?
  8. Spaghetti is romantic because of Lady and the Tramp. That's all I've got. I'm not a very romantic person. Thankfully, I married someone who is also not very romantic. 😄
  9. Super Carlin Brothers. Every now and then, Holderness Family. That's about it for me, lol.
  10. I haven't read them, but the YA series Underdogs by Chris Bonnello would fit the bill. ETA: I actually just requested that my own library get them. 🙂
  11. They can also be good for autistic kids to see characters like themselves.
  12. Books about identifying emotions? Books featuring (for example) autistic characters, bonus if written by autistic authors? (Obviously adjust for the needs of kids in your group.)
  13. I don't recall personally knowing anyone who was homeschooled until middle or maybe even high school. But I don't recall being shocked when I did meet those people, so I assume I was aware that it was a thing. Of the homeschoolers I met, I can specifically think of some who were the "always wear a dress, and probably one you made yourself" variety, and they were quirky in different ways from me. 😉 But very nice. I can think of some who quite clearly believed themselves superior to others who were not homeschooled. So with both of those groups, being homeschooled was a major part of who these people were. I also knew some who were homeschooled but it was just another random fact about them, rather than An Identity. It certainly came up, because "what school do you go to" is a super common question, but it didn't dominate conversation. I don't think I ever wanted to be homeschooled myself. I loved school. My mom had zero interest in homeschooling, so that worked out, lol.
  14. I ask guiding questions. I write the problem on a piece of scratch paper so work can be done there and will not "mess up" the workbook pages (this has been important to two of my kids). I allow the use of a different strategy. If 33-15=x feels impossible but 15+x=33 feels solvable, I let the kid solve it that way. Then I say how great they did figuring it out, and I say, here's another way we could have done it, and quickly walk through my steps of solving the other way. I want them to understand that the strategies are related, and near the end of the page I might say "this time I want to do it the adding way and you do it the subtracting way!" I tell the kid I will write down whatever steps they want to take, so they don't have the challenge of physically writing it as another obstacle to deal with at the same time. That also lets me see how the kid is working through the problem, and I can say "can you tell me why you think we're doing this step next" or "how did you come up with four as the digit that goes there," etc. I declare math done for the day, if needed. 😉 Only my youngest did level 2 (it wasn't out yet for my older two), and he needed some extra practice on those concepts, if I recall correctly. I used Math Mammoth for that. Oh - I remember also drawing blanks or boxes for ones, tens, hundreds in the answers for him, a lot longer than the book gives them. He needed to see that clearly as he worked through the problems.
  15. I read about it recently, but I only just thought about the fact that I will have a kid doing precalc this year so I need to make a decision about it, lol! I am leaning toward not doing it because my kid will also do AP Calc afterward, so it seems unnecessary.
  16. My oldest is in 8th. We're planning to do a college visit this summer (between 8th and 9th) because it's a school that's high on her list, and she and I will be in that city for a convention. We may throw in a visit to another school while we're there as well, just to give her a feeling for how different campuses can be. We do assume that if the school she's interested in stays near the top of the list, we'll visit again a couple of years later.
  17. My youngest will be in 4th. Math: Beast Academy 5 Grammar: I will probably loosely follow Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind but adapt it quite a bit to fit his needs. He is great with grammar concepts, but likes to come up with his own examples that are related to his special interests. Writing: no clue. Writing & Rhetoric is not working for him like it did for my older two. I probably need to develop specific goals and figure out how to teach those while using his special interests (which can change at the drop of a hat, so long-term specific planning is a challenge). Reading: continue alternating between days where he picks a thing to read to me and days where I pick what we read (novels I select) History: continue Notgrass's Our Star-Spangled Story Science: Physics concepts using experiments/demonstrations (Physics Experiments for Children, I think the book is called - the one recommended in the first edition of TWTM), YouTube videos, and library books Latin: continue Lively Latin, beginning Big Book 2 Bible: continue Bible Study Guide for All Ages
  18. I am a giraffe, the holder of the Guinness world record for longest beard, and a liar.
  19. Nobody has requested my particular input, but I'm going in anyway. 😉 Here's what I think causes confusion with "little Chinese school classmate:" the fact that we're reading. If one DID want to say "little Chinese classmate," as in, indicating both size and ethnicity, that's the order the adjectives would go in. So I think it's very natural for someone to read "little Chinese" and expect that those words are each describing the same noun, which will probably be the next word. As for "school classmate" being redundant, it could have been to distinguish from a classmate in gymnastics, art class, Sunday School, etc. But I expect that had the comment been made aloud rather than on a message board, there wouldn't have been any confusion. The way the speaker delivered the words would make the meaning clear. To make it more clear in writing, she would have had to reword the phrase ("little classmate at Chinese school" or similar).
  20. I've just started working on plans for my kid who will be in 9th. And my brain is jumping 57 million different directions rather than being productive in any ONE direction, lol! I know she'll be doing the AOPS Precalculus book (well, finishing up Intermediate Algebra, then Precalculus). She has been working slowly through the MIT OCW Introduction to Psychology course, and I'm pretty sure she wants to continue/finish that and take the AP Psychology exam. Everything else is like "well, I think she'll study this, but I have no idea what that's going to look like" or "...but that depends on factors outside my control and I have to wait and see." So I have a good bit of work to do, and a good bit of waiting as well.
  21. I hated the book. I thought it was compellingly written (if I recall correctly - it's been a few years), but I did not like the storyline at all. I will not be watching the movie.
  22. When our previous doctor closed his practice, I posted on Facebook asking friends for recommendations. Then I called to ask if they accepted our insurance and were taking new patients. I have also seen people post questions about that on a local moms' Facebook group. You don't have to say why, just that you're looking for a new doctor and would prefer one with these characteristics. It's good that you have the current guy in the meantime, though. I had a medical issue come up when I was between primary care doctors and waiting for a new patient appointment and it was annoying to deal with. I would make sure not to malign him to others in your community. He's not a good fit for you, but he may be someone else's idea of a wonderful doctor.
  23. DS is now symptomatic as well. I'm not planning to test him but just assuming he has it. So he's about a day behind me and three days behind DH. DH is feeling noticeably better today. So that's a hopeful thing.
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